Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I like school and I like learning.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.